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 The MEPGS module performs a search for the two critical points on the
-potential energy surface conected to a saddle point of the molecule 
+potential energy surface connected to a saddle point of the molecule 
 defined by input using the \verb+GEOMETRY+ directive (see Section \ref{sec:geom}). 
 The algorithm programmed in MEPGS is a {\bf constrained} trust region quasi-newton optimization and approximate energy Hessian updates.